Feature Request: Add option to check current version of installed Boltz

[adrian-jasinski-ardigen]

Hi,
Thanks for your work on Boltz - it's a great tool!

I'd like to suggest adding a command-line option to check the currently installed version of Boltz (e.g., something like boltz --version or boltz version). This would be very helpful for reproducibility, debugging, and ensuring that scripts or pipelines are running with the correct version of the software.

At the moment, I couldn’t find a way to retrieve the version information directly from the command line.

Thank you for considering this feature!

Best regards,
Adrian

[lucajovine]

If you installed Boltz with Conda:

> alias boltz_version="conda list boltz | awk '/^boltz[[:space:]]/ {print \$2}'"
> boltz_version
2.2.0

[adrian-jasinski-ardigen]

If you installed Boltz with Conda:

> alias boltz_version="conda list boltz | awk '/^boltz[[:space:]]/ {print \$2}'"
> boltz_version
2.2.0

Thanks for the tip! I actually installed it using pip.
By the way, retrieving the version this way feels a bit awkward 😉 — it would be great to have a simple --version flag 👍.

[lucajovine]

Then:

> alias boltz_version="pip show boltz | grep ^Version:"
> boltz_version
Version: 2.2.0

But yes, I agree that the package itself should have such a basic feature...

[Jnelen]

Hi, Thanks for your work on Boltz - it's a great tool!

I'd like to suggest adding a command-line option to check the currently installed version of Boltz (e.g., something like boltz --version or boltz version). This would be very helpful for reproducibility, debugging, and ensuring that scripts or pipelines are running with the correct version of the software.

At the moment, I couldn’t find a way to retrieve the version information directly from the command line.

Thank you for considering this feature!

Best regards, Adrian

I thought the same, so I implemented it in PR #480!

With it, you can do boltz --version which will report the version. Additionally, at the start of a run it will also briefly report the version, so if you have a run you performed a while ago, you can know exactly which version was used. I think this is a basic and useful feature, but it hasn't been merged yet. Hopefully they can have a look and consider merging it!

[lucajovine]

I think this is great, thanks @Jnelen!